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Senior Principal Architect - Executive Director
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom["Full time"]
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You’re a pro who wants to influence the future of technical architecture and our
team is looking for people like you.
The Cloud Foundational Services (CFS) Product Line, a part of Infrastructure
Platforms, acts as the focal point across all of JPMC's cloud capabilities. It
provides the central suite of tools and APIs that manage access to public cloud
capabilities in a secure and compliant manner, defines the developer experience
to bind cloud resources into a coherent ecosystem and, in partnership with both
Enterprise Technology Product Lines and Lines of Business, drives the adoption
and best practices for the implementation of cloud capabilities.
As a Senior Lead Architect at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Foundational
Services, you are an integral part of a team that works to develop high-quality
architecture solutions for the Atlas enterprise cloud platform. This role will
focus on providing architectural guidance and designing tooling to support
efficient line-of-business adoption of public cloud offerings including Amazon
Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
Job responsibilities
• Guides architectural decisions for the JPMC enterprise cloud platform and
advise tenant applications on effective workload placement across AWS, Azure
and GCP
• Works across partner teams and lines of business to make the enterprise
platform the best possible cloud platform for JP Morgan and a leading
platform in the financial services industry
• Evaluates and assesses new AWS, Azure and GCP cloud technologies in the light
of the evolving requirements of lines of business as they grow, providing
feedback and proposing improvements to architecture governance practices
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business
and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors and serves as a
function-wide subject matter expert in optimal workload placement across
public clouds
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code
written by others
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality,
and technical operations and processes
• Leads reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within
the work environment to accelerate architecture analysis, option evaluation,
and delivery of strategic global solutions, with human-in-the-loop validation
and appropriate handling of sensitive data
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide
frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and
application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Establishes portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows
used in architecture and engineering governance, including
traceability/auditability and control expectations aligned to resiliency and
security standards
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Strong solutions architecture experience across public clouds to support
advising on workload placement and designing tools that streamline this
process
• Commercial public cloud native software experience
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital
Leader, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application
development, testing, and operational stability with strong coding skills in
Python or Golang and practical experience in using agentic coding tools
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture, applications, and technical
processes with considerable in-depth knowledge of cloud native principles
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little
to no oversight
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to select or recommend
the best solutions for the future state architecture
• Comfortable working across functional teams from different lines of business
from engineers, architects to product managers and potentially remote.
• Comfortable authoring technical documentation covering design and
architecture content
• Demonstrated experience leading safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI
capabilities within the work environment across architecture workflows,
including validation practices and awareness of data sensitivity
• Ability to evaluate and govern AI-enabled architectural patterns (including
agentic workflows) with clear control boundaries, auditability, and human
approval checkpoints aligned to resiliency and security expectations
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Solution Architect or Developer certifications or higher professional
certification across AWS, Azure or GCP
• Ideally familiarity and experience with architecture modelling tools
including FinOS CALM
• Good experience with Kubernetes, using CLI, developing and deploying
applications and leveraging service mesh technologies
• Comfortable with common identity and access based standards including SAML
and OIDC and approaches including ABAC
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice
and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy
individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a
first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive
to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their
business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring
to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal
opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our
company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute,
including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation,
gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or
disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make
reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and
beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs
[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about
requesting an accommodation.
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from
finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an
essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses,
clients, customers and employees up for success.